Waterbeach CLT

We are setting up a Community Land Trust for Waterbeach to develop affordable homes and community facilities.

[Calum Green @CalumDGreen]

Late to this, but initial thoughts on First Homes...

1. Community land trusts have been doing much of this for a while, great to see it impact national housing policy! (@community_land @CLHLondon)

https://t.co/PxZ96tWbeq

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

Really clear article about why the housing crisis is about interest rates and not supply. We really need to think carefully about doing things differently, before encouraging more people to sink their savings into expensive houses.

[Alastair Parvin @AlastairParvin]

Good piece from @ianmulheirn that makes you realise the mess we’ve got ourselves into (and are likely to get ourselves further into) simply because we got so confused about what actually causes house price inflation.

https://t.co/HoQBzn8QZz

[Nationwide Foundation @NationwideFdtn]

Given the Community Housing Fund revenue funding only opened in July 2018 and the capital programme closes for bids in December, realistically the timeframe is too short for community-led projects to obtain the money from both tranches to deliver homes. An extension is necessary.

[Richard Blyth @RichardBlyth7]

Self and custom build can be urban

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

We want your support for our project to be involved in the New Town development to create genuinely affordable homes for local people. But expectations of “Best Value” hamper this. Help us get community benefit beyond just financial return. We need new and radical solutions.

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

Just been to the hustings where #waterbeachdecides. Lots of great questions asked. @pippaheylings @JamesBullLabour @lucyfrazermp we want to know how you will solve the housing crisis? And how will you support community led housing like us?

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

With Shelter saying spending more than a third of income on housing is unaffordable and an acute shortage of genuinely affordable homes locally. The key issue is the cost of land. Waterbeach Barracks is publicly owned by the MoD and should be used to tackle this, not make profit.

[Chris Brown @ClimatiseChris]

House builders. #BuiltEnvironment #PublicEnemyNo1? @HomeBuildersFed resist election pledges on green building...shameful. The industry should lead not obstruct. And what about the Up Front (embodied) carbon to build them? https://t.co/we8NnwzaR0

[Alastair Parvin @AlastairParvin]

Ahead of this evening’s event with @designcouncil & @thepointpeople on designing for systems change, here’s one of my slides (latest version):

A map of Britain’s housing crisis.

[Chris Brown @ClimatiseChris]

Who decides what social value is? https://t.co/4etPMcjnNn

[Tom Chance @tom_chance]

Some interesting comments from Mark. Catherine will be sharing some @community_land thoughts soon too...

[createstreets @createstreets]

"What is the difference between housing and a place, between a home and a unit, between a street and a road, between a village green and a ‘public open space’? What is the difference between a place we call home and something in which we merely exisit?"

https://t.co/KtW5pGXouJ

[Chris Brown @ClimatiseChris]

Lots of politically motivated heat, but little light, about #StarterHomes A bad policy; homes in the wrong place or displacing genuinely affordable homes. Quietly dropped by May's Government. So how to bin one of your own party's mistakes? Openly perhaps? https://t.co/uivhM3wPpH

[Tom Chance @tom_chance]

A good explanation of what a rubbish idea Starter Homes became. Meanwhile, Cornwall Community Land Trust has got on and built over 230 homes sold at prices related to local incomes, with discounts protected for future buyers, and other CLTs have followed.

[Alastair Parvin @AlastairParvin]

A list of things likely to increase communities’ support for new homes in their area...

... which is also a list of things that speculative land developers see as costs, and so try to minimise them.

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[Community Led Housing London @CLHLondon]

When communities are at the center of housing development and management, their creativity and long term interests achieve more successful homes for us all. Building trust means increasing communities' resources and decision making power #HousingDay #HomesforLondoners

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

@MoleArchitects Exactly, it’s not straightforward, and it’s clever solutions like these we want to explore. And we want to make sure that the whole life cost is considered, as a home that’s cheaper to run helps with affordability too! But too often different people are paying.

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

We want to consider both energy in construction and in use in our project. Does it really need to be more expensive?

[Meredith Bowles. @MeredithMole]

Brilliant CO2 comparables between construction materials by ⁦@WebbYates: why the need for massive spans in steel? ⁩ Must we sacrifice indulgent design to save the planet? | RIBAJ https://t.co/vU6KjLpd3y

[Waterbeach CLT @waterbeachclt]

Shared ownership accepts that the market price for homes is right, which it isn’t necessarily in the long term, distorted by low interest rates. We need to think about affordability in the long term too. (And other forms of having a home too)

[Meredith Bowles. @MeredithMole]

We have design guides up the wahooda. What we need is a system that empowers local authorities to make decisions, backed with finance to develop and employ. The empowerment rests with those who pay. No design guide will make good places for people if the prime motive is profit.